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Goniastrea coral (no English common name)
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Photo: Rowley, Chris / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 (view on Wikimedia Commons)Collected specimen photographed out of water. Coral photo: species not verifiable from image.

Goniastrea coral (no English common name)

Goniastrea favulus

Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 288026, checked 2026-10-31).

English
Goniastrea coral (no English common name)
Scientific
Goniastrea favulus
Dhivehi
No recorded Dhivehi name
Group
Hard corals
Family
Merulinidae (brain, honeycomb and horn corals)
Depth and habitat
Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 40 m
IUCN status
LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023CITES Appendix II

Description

A massive coral with cups that share walls in a honeycomb or short-valley pattern. It is common on reef flats and upper slopes. It is told apart from related species only by close examination of the skeleton.

In the Maldives

Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); literature records via OBIS (Hexacorallians of the World (Fautin 2013), IndOBIS).

Sources

Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.